I Shall Be Missed -

 - At Work
For Conrad is off on leave tomorrow and Monday, hoorah!
Tomorrow I shall be dog-sitting Edna, who isn't much of a bother to look after, although Conrad always exaggerates how utterly dreadful she's been and what a martyr he is, etcetera, etcetera.  A couple of long walks and a bit of ball-chasing, regular feeding, allowing her to KILL a plastic bag - not too stressful.

One of these came crawling by whilst I was typing.
It was carrying a dead mouse.

     At work, however ... well they won't be getting cake from Conrad, although my Glamourous Understudy* Sophie will be taking chocolate brownies in.  What they will miss is the dedicated horsepower I bring to the job, focussed with incredible, near-frightening intent on inputting; of course, not having Anna next to me helped today, as she is a terrible diversion - always chit-chatting, asking for opinions, commenting on something called "Carnation Street" and what Joey from The Only Way Is Essex was up to last night**.
     Anyway, on with the show!

TREX
I was musing on Dinosaurus, the amoral genius who featured in "Invincible" recently, and obviously - obviously! - he's a Tyrannosaurus Rex, more usually abbreviated to "T Rex", hence the title of this post.  The T Rex features in just about any medium that deals with dinosaurs, especially the "Jurassic Park" film franchise.  Howlingly ironic that Americans like the beast so much, given that they live in a republic and the name T Rex means "Tyrant King".
     However, "TREX" is also a brand of lard, made out of vegetable oil.  Solid at room temperature, it can be used as a substitute for butter.  Conrad is not quite sure where the name comes from, but he will work at it until he comes up with an unreasonable fiction about it.

The king of the dinosaurs in all his terrif - no, hang on -

Culture
Don't worry, there won't be much of this here.  Lowri, that lilting lass from the valleys (Welsh, o thou dull unpoetical), left work to go pursue a career in the theatre.  Lo, as one door closes another opens; her boyfriend Rick returned to our team after adventures on the floors below.  In passing conversation he mentioned that he and Lowri were off to see "War Horse" at the Lowry*** theatre.
     'Ah!' wondered Conrad.  'How do they portray a horse on the stage?'
     'With puppets,' explained Rick, mentioning the puppeteers who had been involved with the large-scale puppetry in Liverpool in the recent past.
     Conrad, who is the living representation of curiosity/inquisitiveness/sheer nosiness, practiced a bit of Google-fu and Hay Pesto! here you are:

Looks like "Attack of the Killer Kelpies"

"What We Did On Our Holiday"
Do you remember my recent comments on the colour palette used in advertising films and television programmes?  Doubtless Darling Daughter could hold forth about this at length but!  she's at Nick Everton House^, not here, so Conrad's musings will have to do.
     Anyway, here's the poster:

Bright!  Breezy!  Blue!

     As you know, BOOJUM! doesn't bother to read what IMDB says about a film, merely working on intuition, a glass of tequila and some pork scratchings for interpretation - hey, it beats a goat's intestines!
     This is obviously - obviously! - a film about the Zombie Apocalypse and how Scotland deals with it.
     Oh, you want reasons?  Very well!
     1)Two-thirds of the people on that photo are Scottish.  Ergo it's about Scotland.
     2)  Billy Connolly has played a zombie in the film "Fido"
     3) Rosamund Pike was in "The World's End" with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who were
     both in "Sean Of The Dead" which featured Namibian Dancing Fish - only kidding, it 
     featured ZOMBIES!
     4)  David Tennant starred in "The Waters of Mars" in which water turned humans into
     ZOMBIES!
     5) Simon Pegg was in "Spaced" which featured an episode where he hallucinated that
     he was fighting ZOMBIES!
     6)  Look at the poster background.  What are those people doing?  Running.  They can
     only be running from ZOMBIES!

Damn.  Lack Of Slug
Once again time conspires against us, gentle reader.  I did have and do have and dammit I WILL get to do the list of Slugbot inspired nonsense, except not tonight.


What On Earth?!
I came across this brilliant poster when looking for images of "What We Etc."

Forgive me, Anna, for my morals are weak ...

     The only negative is that Anna, who is officially "Friend to all the Animals^^", a title bestowed by the UN, will tell me off.

Finally
Look, a cute puppy being appealing!

<Thinks - cute enough to dismiss the Punching Zoo post>

     She really is that cute in real life.


* This is rather cheeky, she's a far better baker than I am
**  This is even cheekier as none of it is true (except the Joey Essex bit).
*** What a strange coincidence.
^  No, Nick Everton is not a new boyfriend; it's a hall of residence. Note the absence of apostrophe, o thou ungrammatical.
^^ Even the Weasel Shark